The Arab World and Western Intelligence: Analysing the Middle East, 1956-1981

by Dina Rezk

Book Overview

This book addresses a critical question embedded within a heated debate about American intelligence after 9/11: have Western experts failed in some fundamental way to understand the dynamics, leaders and culture of the Middle East?
Using the most recently declassified documents, interviews and Arabic sources, the book examines seminal case studies culminating in Sadat's dramatic assassination and explores how the most knowledgeable and powerful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474444407
• ISBN13: 9781474444408
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"